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I've backed a few Kickstarters over the past couple of years. Many have been fun and exciting (Monte Cook's Numenera and the Dungeon Bastards "World's Worst Dungeon Crawl" are two examples). Most have been late, of course. Really late. But, then, that's Kickstarter.

I have never actually perused Kickstarter. I've always heard about interesting projects via social media. So I figured that it would be nice to have a thread here where we can all share interesting, gaming-related crowd-funded projects. Not just from Kickstarter, but any of the other ones as well.

To start off, I'm currently backing Breachworld. It looks to be an interesting cross between Rifts (unsurprisingly, the author freelances on Palladium products) and Gamma World (civilization collapsed some time ago). It's built on Mini Six, which happens to be my go-to gaming system. Because I've been burned before, I'm paying special attention to how the author is planning his release schedule. He's already released a free 77 page preview which tells me that he really is serious about production.

It got the funding and then during the post-kickstarter design phase GM Sarlie just kept disappearing and soon the $200 I invested for the 3 collector's edition hardbacks went poof and no one has heard from him since.

I am only slightly bitter, he was in bad health... but nothing was passed onto the investors that were helping with the background, world setting, so on and so forth

I was pretty much sold on this as soon as I saw the name... How could I pass up on a game called Shotguns and Sorcery? I hadn't heard of the setting before Monte Cook posted about it (it's using the Cypher engine that's at the heart of Numenera and The Strange and the first 3rd party product to do so) but there are some short novels out. Goblintown Justice is free, a quick read, and gives a nice sense of the setting's flavor.